Most games worth their salt with have you understand about 90% of the game/genre within the first 10 minutes just from good conveyance. Most games I start off playing I play on medium, because when I play on easy, it feels like I miss out on the whole experience. Then when I become comfortable with the gameplay, I kick it up to hard.

I understand being new to the game, but most of the time you miss out when you play on easy...

What are you talking about, all you had to do was learn from your early mistakes and you were golden. If you didn't redo fights after you died, on the same difficulty, then obviously you wouldn't learn a thing...but seriously why wouldn't you